Hammock.



R. G. PUNKE.

HAMMOOK.

` APPLICATION I'ILED JUN 13, 1907.

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HAMMOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

Application filed June 13, 1907. Serial No. 378,731.

To all whom 'it mail concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT O. FUNKE, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHammocks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide for holding the endsof a spreader and the fabric adjacent to them in proper position, whileat the same time providing for the secure and sightly attachment of theadjacent clue-cords.

To this end the invention comprises the improvements to be presentlydescribed and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of my invention will bemore fully understood from the following description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which- Figure1, is a perspective view illustrating a hammock embodying features ofthe invention. IFig. 2, is a perspective view illustrating one of theend clips detached, and

Ifig. 3, is a similar view illustrating an end clip enibodying amodification.

The end clip comprises a plate portion 1, provided at one edge with anextending clue-cord eye 2, and at the adjacent edges with clampingplates 3, and 4:. The latter may be plain plates, as shown in Fig. 2, orthey may have marginal inturned jaWs 5, as shown in Fig. 8.

6, is a hammock body having' a pocket 7 8, is a spreader arranged in thepocket.

10, are the intermediate Suspension cords and 11, the end clue-cords.

The clip is arranged over' the end of the spreader outside of thehammock body 6, and valance 12. The plates 3, and 4, are then pressed orhammered toward each other so that they engage the fabric of the hammockand also the end of the spreader, thus they are securely secured andafford means for attaching the clue-cords 11 and for preventingdetachment of the ends of the spreader from the body of the hammock.

lVhat I claim is,

An end clip for clamping spreaders comprising a flat plate provided atone edge with a clue cord eye extending in the plane of the plate and atadjacent edges with clamping plates extending substantially at rightangles to the plane of the first-mentioned plate and of 'the eye,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

ROBERT O. FUNKE.

In the presence of- VV. J. JACKSON, FRANK E. FRENCH.

